-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Scott Ellis wrote: > On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Christian Schwarz wrote: > > With the new lintian check I discovered that some packages install a `du' > > control file (contains the output of the du command). > > > > Does someone know which program is using these files?? > > > > If there is no good reason for these files, should we consider this a bug? > > (IMO, yes.) > > They are created by the debhelper program dh_du. They're useful for > figuring out how much space on each of your filesystems a package is > taking up, especially useful if one filesystem is getting cramped. Like > the md5sums file, I wouldn't judge their presence either way.
You may figure out how much space on each of your filesystems a package is taking up without the need of those files... Just write a program which uses /var/lib/dpkg/info/<package>.list as the input data. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBNOR2LCqK7IlOjMLFAQHOLQP+J3L3Q7laLSVmqIgizpPWxyvnZHVgEe3X ifZwGMPX6JE1abgaCPnZDgSKwu5ivx5S05fQjvtFZpeFtR8Y3S6TaOO7Lqo3wXZP i7Hi+tl/ebu7I30J48R1Q+Zi/a8yaElsIFtUf6fzwa73TO8LRKS19rHZ2IOOdvP+ iA8tbOAoCdc= =TKXx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
